Powerarchiver starts faster with UPX

[klumy]

Can anyone confirm this?

If you compress the powerarc.exe with the EXE packer UPX, Powerarchiver starts much faster.

Try it yourself

Download
http://upx.sourceforge.net/download/upx125w.zip

unpack it.

then drag your powerarc.exe from your Powerarchiver directory to the upx.exe. Make a backup of your powerarc.exe before doing this.

[ivan]

Probably it stats faster (I cannot confirm this) - but there is another problem. Program compressed with UPX uses more IS-USE memory than uncompressed program.

[klumy]

I can live with that, I have 512MB Ram installed. So in my case the speed improvement is more precious than the RAM loss ;)

[ivan]

Sure, but we always have to think there are people still runing on Windows 9x with 16 MB of RAM in average (for those old configurations);)